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| 2715.1 | Haven't seen it, though... | SWAM2::BARNETTE_NE | Try THAT on your MAC, Daddy! | Thu Oct 14 1993 12:32 | 4 | 
|  |     
    I would guess that the reference is to the number of people who
    (potentially) provide support to Alpha, not the number of Digital
    employees world-wide. 
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| 2715.2 | Sounds like an inside joke | TLE::RALTO |  | Thu Oct 14 1993 12:32 | 7 | 
|  |     >> "With over 40,000 professionals in 475 locations worlwide, Digital..."
    >>
    >> Do the authors of these brochures know something we don't?
    
    Sure... the rest of us are unprofessional!  :-)
    
    Chris
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| 2715.3 | These are field-based personnel | LACGID::BIAZZO | DECvp - Highest Unit Volume Product | Thu Oct 14 1993 12:36 | 5 | 
|  | Whenever these numbers are thrown around, they mean field-based personnel ie
Sales, Sales Support, MCS
It doesn't include engineering, marketing, HR, corporate, etc.
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| 2715.4 |  | NOTIME::SACKS | Gerald Sacks ZKO2-3/N30 DTN:381-2085 | Thu Oct 14 1993 12:55 | 2 | 
|  | Reminds me of Ken's alleged answer to the question of how many people worked
at Digital.  "About half."
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| 2715.5 | nedd a spelllcheck!! | HYLNDR::POLTRACK | SQOIS ZKO1-1 | Thu Oct 14 1993 14:26 | 5 | 
|  |  Does the copy really say:
    worlwide???
 Seems like they failed in spelling also!
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| 2715.6 |  | STAR::ABBASI | only 62 days left to graduate | Thu Oct 14 1993 14:31 | 16 | 
|  |     ref .-1
    
    >Seems like they failed in spelling also!
     
    let them use DECspell, it served me right through the many years
    of use with no serious problems to report. 
    i think commercial people should pay allot of attention to spelling
    mistakes because thousands a bone thousands of people will see
     it and it reflects the image of our corporation to the world that
    is why it is very sensitive issue.
    \nasser
    who_uses_DECspell_on_reqular_basis_without_a_hitch_or_a_hiss
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| 2715.7 | I mispelled worldwide, but not the 40,000... | EPAVAX::EPAPC1::CARLOTTI | Rick, DTN 440-7229 | Thu Oct 14 1993 16:27 | 1 | 
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| 2715.8 |  | MU::PORTER | cool runnings | Fri Oct 15 1993 11:11 | 3 | 
|  |  >  i think commercial people should pay allot of attention to spelling
But they should allot some attention to grammar, too.
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| 2715.9 | i agree with \Dave | STAR::ABBASI | only 62 days left to graduate | Fri Oct 15 1993 11:37 | 13 | 
|  |     
    >But they should allot some attention to grammar, too.
    excellent point \Dave, i forgot to say that.
    spelling and grammar seems so entwined , can't have one without the other.
    it is even more important to our marketing and commercial folks for
    the same reasons i elaborated at in my earlier notes.
    good observation !.
    \bye
    \nasser
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| 2715.10 | Points of spelling and grammar | TNPUBS::PHALEN |  | Tue Oct 19 1993 15:36 | 7 | 
|  | If spelling and grammar are at issue, may I point out that
"a lot," meaning a quantity of something, as in "a lot of 
work" is two words, not one.  "Allot" is a verb, meaning "to distribute by lot, 
to apportion or to allocate," as in "We allotted three weeks for the task."  
                
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| 2715.11 |  | STAR::ABBASI | only 57 days to graduate! | Tue Oct 19 1993 15:38 | 14 | 
|  |     .10
    
    >If spelling and grammar are at issue, may I point out that
    >"a lot," meaning a quantity of something, as in "a lot of
    >work" is two words, not one.  "Allot" is a verb, meaning "to distribute
    >by lot,to apportion or to allocate," as in "We allotted three weeks for the
    >task."
    
    good point.
    
    i agree too.
    
    \nasser
    
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